385 weeks ago
Vasyl Dzharty, the chairman of the Crimean Council of Ministers and the leader of the Crimean branch of the Regions Party, has been recognized as the most influential politician in Crimea in 2010, according to a survey of experts conducted by the Crimean independent center of political scientists and journalists.

386 weeks ago
MOSCOW, Dec 29 (Reuters) - Prime Minister Vladimir Putin banned Moscow aviation officials on Wednesday from going on their New Year holiday -- a Russian national institution -- after two of the city's major airports descended into chaos.

386 weeks ago
This was disclosed by chief state sanitary doctor of Ukraine Sergey Ryzhenko at today's press conference that was held at the Ministry of Health. According to him, the epidemic situation of SARS and influenza is currently stabilized. Read more.

386 weeks ago
Ukraine is ready to implement the plan on the introduction of the visa-free regime with the EU countries in the first half of 2011, Ukraine's President Viktor Yanukovych said in an exclusive interview with 1+1 channel on Sunday night.

386 weeks ago
NEW YORK (AP) — A winter storm made travel torturous in the Northeast on Sunday, dropping a thick layer of snow that stranded thousands of airline, train and bus passengers and made motorists think twice about hitting after-Christmas sales.

387 weeks ago
It is possible to visit Chernobyl in the Ukraine, but for obvious reasons, it’s not exactly a tourist hotspot and you won’t find many travel agents offering package deals there. The nuclear meltdown that occurred there 24 years ago was the world’s worst nuclear accident and an area over 1,000 square miles had to be cordoned off and declared a dead zone.

387 weeks ago
The Christmas travel season turned angry and chaotic Monday as British officials struggled to clear snow and ice that paralyzed rail and air links and spawned cancellations and delays stranding thousands around the world.

387 weeks ago
Heavy overnight snowfall disrupted air travel across western Europe Friday, forcing more than 800 flight cancellations and leading to major delays in Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland.

388 weeks ago
Being a doctor with the team sent in to deal with the fallout from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant disaster, Latvian President Valdis Zatlers told visiting Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych yesterday that these memories will influence his decisions on the use of nuclear energy. Click here to read more.

388 weeks ago
Three strains of influenza virus are expected in Ukraine this winter, but there will be no new strains of the virus, Oleh Nazar, the director of the Kyiv center of immunology and a chief specialist in clinical immunology at Kyiv's main health care department, has predicted.

389 weeks ago
Travelers in Paris and Frankfurt slept at the airport after snow and ice caused travel chaos. Pop singer Shakira canceled a concert in Germany, while the French prime minister missed a gala at Moscow's Bolshoi Theater.

390 weeks ago
Starting from December 2010, Ukrainian citizens will be able to apply for visas to travel to Latvia and Estonia not only in Kyiv, but also in regional representative offices of Pony Express Ukraine in Odesa, Kharkiv, Donetsk, Dnipropetrovsk, Kharkiv, Simferopol, Lviv, Latvian Ambassador to Ukraine Atis Sjanits has said.

390 weeks ago
One clear sign that winning visa-free travel to Europe will not happen anytime soon for Ukrainians can be found in the official statement issued from Brussels on Nov. 22, after the 14th Ukraine-European Union Summit.

391 weeks ago
President of Ukraine Victor Yanukovych is confident that the most
important result of the Fourteenth EU-Ukraine Summit was presentation of
the Visa-Free Travel Action Plan by the EU, he said at a press
conference in Brussels Monday.
"I regard

391 weeks ago
BRUSSELS — The European Union set conditions Monday for Ukraine to win visa-free travel rights for its citizens while urging Kiev to make progress on human rights. The two sides agreed on an "action plan" at a Brussels summit between Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych, European Commission chief Jose Manuel Barroso and EU president Herman Van Rompuy. Read the story here.

391 weeks ago
BANGKOK (AP) — The wife of accused Russian arms trafficker Viktor Bout said Monday she will sue Thailand in an attempt to get him released from U.S. custody after the Southeast Asian nation extradited him last week.

391 weeks ago
Oleksandr Daniliuk, head of the All-Ukrainian Center for Business Support and protest leader, said on Nov. 21 that police are preventing demonstrators from traveling to Kyiv to participate in a demonstration on Nov. 22.

The ministry notes, on November 17 resumed protest actions by supporters of a runner for the presidency of Guinea, Cellou Dalein Diallo, accompanied by barbarous acts and clashes with police and gendarmerie.

392 weeks ago
SARAJEVO, Bosnia-Herzegovina (AP) — The EU urged Bosnian authorities on Friday to tell their citizens that being allowed to travel to the European Union without a visa does not mean an unlimited stay, jobs or social benefits.

392 weeks ago
YANGON, Nov 12 (Reuters) - Aung San Suu Kyi, who went from English housewife to Myanmar's oppposition leader and world famous political prisoner, is a powerful symbol of the struggle against dictatorship in one of the world's most oppressive countries.

392 weeks ago
LONDON, Nov 12 (Reuters Life!) - For those who want to try a more adventurous holiday in 2011, but do not want to leave their home comforts behind, a cruise could provide the solution.
Cruise Critic (www.cruisecritic.co.uk) -- a leading online source of cruise reviews and information -- offers its top 10 destinations by boat. Reuters has not endorsed this list:

393 weeks ago
It should be no surprise that human collectives choose policies destructive of GDP or employment growth when they deem those policies to be wrong or unjust. Individual human beings act against their material interests all the time, providing full employment for economists who endlessly study the “ultimatum game“. Political choice combines diffuse personal costs with powerful moral signifiers. Read the story here.